Top 1200 Class Status Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

A brand today is much more than status. Consumers have to be able to trust it.

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

I am profoundly concerned with the current treatment and status of Madoff fraud victims.

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don’t know about [their status].

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

It is only the BJP that gave dignity to the film business by giving it industry status.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The Champions League enjoys a special status. It's the most attractive trophy you can win.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Once upon a time the 'GG' was a status symbol. It was the reason people were buying.

I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around. You never really get rewarded in class for being funny. You're a disturbance. But the funny kid is often witty and clever and quick... they finally get a chance to express themselves when they get out of school.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.